CDs have a much, much higher dynamic range than vinyl. Compare CD's 90db or so to vinyl's 45db on a good turntable.
Except that no one masters CD's to take advantage of this range these days. Most every album is mastered so that it will fit inside the dynamic range of FM radio, unfortunately. Perhaps the move towards vinyl is a protest to this practice?
I can't believe I am responding to a denialist...
The moon does have more than one light source. Reflected light from the LEM, the astronauts, and the Earth (which would appear three times bigger than the full moon does here) And photographer worth his salt knows that cameras can be stopped down to allow remarkably little light into the camera. ISO 50 film with an f/22 aperture and a shutter speed of 1/4000 would produce a nearly black photograph on a bright sunny day. And a bright sunny day on earth would be *brighter* than a day on the moon, since the entire sky is illuminated with deflected light here.
Part "II" Hah. Laughable. Once you are in orbit, your 80% or 90% of the way there. That is the *hard* part. Once you are up, you just need a few small impulses and course corrections (and *maybe* gravity-assist) to go anywhere in the solar-system. In order to support this claim, you must show that reaching orbit is impossible with 1960's technology.
And let's look at the Russians. They were our brutal enemies. If the US faked a moon shot, all the Russians would have to do to prove and (and thus win that battle in the cold war) would be to point a directional antenna at the moon and see if the claimed signal is emanating from there.
In the end, It would be way cheaper to go just to the moon, than it would be to fake it. I just don't get the conspiracies some people buy into.
Free does not mean much to a professional who needs to get things done. Would a pro photographer use a quikimart freebe camera to shoot promo material?
Also, Photoshop *does* have a complete API in the lastest CS version (Using a JavaScript implementation--no cludgy C). I'm pretty sure it can perform all the actions avail. from the GUI. Map generation would be pretty trivial if this is the case.
This is due to the gulf stream warming costal areas up. Massive climate change may well collapse this stream, causing your part of the world to be just as cold as others at the same latitude.
You dont even have to do this. Any assembly can directly load any other assembly. (so your busness logic can be in delphi, your rendering in c#, and your web services in c++)
You just cant combine languages in a single 'project' under asp.net, probably because there is a lot of automatic code generation.
I'll include a snip to make my point, pressed submit a bit too quick:
How is the performance of the managed version?
Initially, the managed version was faster than the native version when the default processor optimization setting/G5 (Pentium) was used. Changing the optimization setting to/G7 (Pentium 4 and Above) created a native version that runs around 15% faster then the managed version.
Sorry, I didn't mean that the licence was BSD-style, I ment to say it was implemented on BSD. Fingers appear to have typed the words for that, though;)
I seem to recall that microsoft research was working on a '3d' user interface system many years ago. It displayed windows as textures on billboards in a 3d space.
3d compositing is actually a scaled back version of a full 3d space, in that it prevents windows from having tilt, so that z-buffering is easier.
I also remember reading an article about a composited desktop on the microsoft website prior to OSX coming out, which described many of the features that are now in the longhorn set.
And lastly, I have not seen anyone substantiate the claim that MS's implementation is a carbon-copy of OSX. There are some definate features in common, but there is bound to be vast differences. Simply adopting a superior technology which a competitor happens to also use is USUALLY considered a good thing. If this DIDNT happen, we'd all still be using command line interfaces...
oh wait... many of us still are.
the ole slashdot story spinner 9000 seems to be functioning normally...
"How could we get information out if we're using this new "object oriented" design? Modify class X with method Y and add the following code?"
You dont need to modify any non-sealed classes in OO. you can just override them.
if a third-party game engine is in a class called "SuperEngine", you could just write your own DLL containing "SuperEngineEx : SuperEngine" and selectively replace or augment methods in SuperEngine.
Then, though polymorphism, the third-party code would then be redirected to your method.
Your wrong about a C# EXE not running on another OS. its already happening. I can compile a.NET exe (or Assembly) in the vs.net ide, and run it on Mono, Unchanged and in binary form, as long as my assembly does not use any classes that are buggy/uncomplete on mono.
Thats binary cross-platform execution, folks, except unlike Java, you get speed rivaling C++ once JITing is done, and an amazing set of classes as your API (think Win32 replacement). When there are stable CLR's on other platforms, it will indeed mark the the end of Java insofar as I am concerned, unless of course Microsoft fucks it up and goes the lawyer route. They have a tendency to do that...
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Say what you will, but for me, XML delivers on every one of its promises. I think that it is easy to dismiss as 'hype' because it is so deceptively simple. After all, XML is just a special format for writing ASCII documents, right?
Well, that statement is on par with saying that ASCII is just an OVERHYPED binary format for storing text. Its not, and neither is XML for the same reasons.
Xml allows me to stamp out robust document schemas in minutes or hours, instead of months or even years if working from scratch. Because of the rich set of tools you mention, I don't have to write a metric ass-load of documentation on my formats, either. XML spec + my extensions == all the client needs. Because XML is a stable standard, things like MathML, ChemML, DocBook, DOM, etc. can exist, and proceed to maturity faster than otherwise.
Yes, there were some that want to XMLify everything, but that's not an intrinsic fault of XML any more than when some dumb programmer that wants to redesign the Linux kernel to use ASCII-based API calls...
What I am hoping/expecting for in this new format is something like XSL:FO plus binary sections for ActiveX controls, etc.
For the 5 or so posters saying this will be something like:
<data> ASdfksjdfFjfjAAASADFfddfds== </data >
I highly doubt it. They are on record in several places as saying they want these new files to be indexable and parsable with standard tools, and base64 encoded blocks I am sorry to say, are not indexable. But of course Embedable objects will probably be forced to manifest this way.
Regarding the claims that this will be like their horrid HTML implementation, I think it is clear you've not done much work with XML. Either a document is valid or it is not. If its not valid, most parsers will simply reject the file (unlike HTML, which just deals with the problems). If a document is valid, there should be no tool that doesn't properly load and parse it into the DOM, unless it is somehow broken!
The question for me is how well they implement content-presentation seperation. Will there be a 'Word 11 XSL file' with the actual content of the file seperated nicely into tags like
<SectionHeader>Resume</SectionHeader>
or will the style and content be mashed together like so:
<font size="50pt">Resume</font>
This is the question I want answered more than anything, and I can't wait to see which way they go with it. If everything is seperated nicely, we may just have an excellent source for user-produced well-formed xml documents which can be integrated into XML-based content management systems with PDF-based presentation and HTML previews, etc.
MacOS does have several technologies that make it feel slower than it has to be, however. for example, it uses PDF as a layer of the composition engine. Perhaps this is overkill?
And besides, animating windows into the dock does not have to also morph and deform the window in the process. They could have simply scaled it down and saved a great deal of CPU (GPU) time, and users would still know where their shit went.
talking paperclips are certainly bad, but I (respectfully) don't think you understand what I am saying.
There is a difference between the computer helping when appropriate (in the background), and forcing you to notice its stupid blunders over and over (such as with the paperclip)
And I used no buzzwords. those words you think are buzz words are actually what those respective technologies are called. I actually find it very funny that you that 'neural net' is a buzzword!
Software isn't growing in complexity as fast as the chips. Perhaps this a good thing...
But I really do wish comercial software would start using some of the more cpu-heavy algorithms out there. I want a neural-net email filter and IM status indicator, a GA for determining disk load order in order to improve boot time, and huristic news gathering agents the output of which can be used on my PDA, my computer, or my website. Quick-launch menus should be generated from observations of my behavior, not manual labour or click-counts. For example, I want a quick-launch bar that can understand that when I start firing up web development apps, I may want other suchlike programs. Why must the icon for Warcraft III remain prominant if I am currently working in photoshop?
If I use a certain directory constantly for a certain type of document, the agent should recognise the importaince of that directory to ME and promote the accessibilty of it somehow when I am working on such a document. My directory structures should be somehow understood, so that when I want to save a new document, the computer can recommend where it thinks I want to put it.
Software is starting to stick in its current roles, and so chip speed is no longer the limiting factor. If we start building better software, the chips will resume their progress.
Along with such a law, each marketer should have a public/private keyset, and all of their outgoing mail should be signed by that key.
These advertisers can then pay ISP's a 'distribution fee', which allows mail signed by that marketer's key to pass through the ISP spam filter. This ensures that spam is not free, which will drop the number of spam messages, and will also cause a corresponding increase in quality.
We are not getting rid of spam, but establishing a reasonable system for permitting its distribution seems fair.
Canon does provide support for a "Data Verification Kit" on its latest 1Ds camera. No word on how secure it is, etc.
from here: "Finally with a nod toward law enforcement the EOS-1Ds is the first digital camera that offers the ability to verify that images are unaltered originals using the Data Verification Kit DVK-E1, consisting of a dedicated IC card and card reader, together with software for Windows 2000/XP. This package is available to verify that EOS-1Ds image files are absolutely unaltered. "
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Or... maybe your decrepit media player should support more modern international standards, such as the one these videos are encoded in.
I can't believe I am responding to a denialist... The moon does have more than one light source. Reflected light from the LEM, the astronauts, and the Earth (which would appear three times bigger than the full moon does here) And photographer worth his salt knows that cameras can be stopped down to allow remarkably little light into the camera. ISO 50 film with an f/22 aperture and a shutter speed of 1/4000 would produce a nearly black photograph on a bright sunny day. And a bright sunny day on earth would be *brighter* than a day on the moon, since the entire sky is illuminated with deflected light here. Part "II" Hah. Laughable. Once you are in orbit, your 80% or 90% of the way there. That is the *hard* part. Once you are up, you just need a few small impulses and course corrections (and *maybe* gravity-assist) to go anywhere in the solar-system. In order to support this claim, you must show that reaching orbit is impossible with 1960's technology. And let's look at the Russians. They were our brutal enemies. If the US faked a moon shot, all the Russians would have to do to prove and (and thus win that battle in the cold war) would be to point a directional antenna at the moon and see if the claimed signal is emanating from there. In the end, It would be way cheaper to go just to the moon, than it would be to fake it. I just don't get the conspiracies some people buy into.
Uh, its far superior [PDF] as a scripting language to anything else. Please provide an alternative that rocks as much.
Free does not mean much to a professional who needs to get things done. Would a pro photographer use a quikimart freebe camera to shoot promo material?
Also, Photoshop *does* have a complete API in the lastest CS version (Using a JavaScript implementation--no cludgy C). I'm pretty sure it can perform all the actions avail. from the GUI. Map generation would be pretty trivial if this is the case.
This is due to the gulf stream warming costal areas up. Massive climate change may well collapse this stream, causing your part of the world to be just as cold as others at the same latitude.
See Rotor for a published 'bulk' of dotnet. Also, it isn't just ECMA standard, its also an ISO standard (reference).
You just cant combine languages in a single 'project' under asp.net, probably because there is a lot of automatic code generation.
I BEG to disagree. You are quite misinformed.
Sorry, I didn't mean that the licence was BSD-style, I ment to say it was implemented on BSD. Fingers appear to have typed the words for that, though ;)
- Rotor (BSD-style
.NET implementation)
- Schema for WordML can be found at this page (look in the Word content development kit)
SMB is an older protocol from the 'old days' of microsoft, before their current trend of releasing everything.You want Eve
I seem to recall that microsoft research was working on a '3d' user interface system many years ago. It displayed windows as textures on billboards in a 3d space.
3d compositing is actually a scaled back version of a full 3d space, in that it prevents windows from having tilt, so that z-buffering is easier.
I also remember reading an article about a composited desktop on the microsoft website prior to OSX coming out, which described many of the features that are now in the longhorn set.
And lastly, I have not seen anyone substantiate the claim that MS's implementation is a carbon-copy of OSX. There are some definate features in common, but there is bound to be vast differences. Simply adopting a superior technology which a competitor happens to also use is USUALLY considered a good thing. If this DIDNT happen, we'd all still be using command line interfaces...
oh wait... many of us still are.
the ole slashdot story spinner 9000 seems to be functioning normally...
"How could we get information out if we're using this new "object oriented" design? Modify class X with method Y and add the following code?"
You dont need to modify any non-sealed classes in OO. you can just override them.
if a third-party game engine is in a class called "SuperEngine", you could just write your own DLL containing "SuperEngineEx : SuperEngine" and selectively replace or augment methods in SuperEngine.
Then, though polymorphism, the third-party code would then be redirected to your method.
F# Exists!
It appears to be similar to Caml.
Thats binary cross-platform execution, folks, except unlike Java, you get speed rivaling C++ once JITing is done, and an amazing set of classes as your API (think Win32 replacement). When there are stable CLR's on other platforms, it will indeed mark the the end of Java insofar as I am concerned, unless of course Microsoft fucks it up and goes the lawyer route. They have a tendency to do that...
Well, that statement is on par with saying that ASCII is just an OVERHYPED binary format for storing text. Its not, and neither is XML for the same reasons.
Xml allows me to stamp out robust document schemas in minutes or hours, instead of months or even years if working from scratch. Because of the rich set of tools you mention, I don't have to write a metric ass-load of documentation on my formats, either. XML spec + my extensions == all the client needs. Because XML is a stable standard, things like MathML, ChemML, DocBook, DOM, etc. can exist, and proceed to maturity faster than otherwise.
Yes, there were some that want to XMLify everything, but that's not an intrinsic fault of XML any more than when some dumb programmer that wants to redesign the Linux kernel to use ASCII-based API calls...
- Strong
- Electromagnetic
- Weak
- Gravitational
I even fetched a URL on a whim, just in case you disagree for some reason.What I am hoping/expecting for in this new format is something like XSL:FO plus binary sections for ActiveX controls, etc.
For the 5 or so posters saying this will be something like:
I highly doubt it. They are on record in several places as saying they want these new files to be indexable and parsable with standard tools, and base64 encoded blocks I am sorry to say, are not indexable. But of course Embedable objects will probably be forced to manifest this way.Regarding the claims that this will be like their horrid HTML implementation, I think it is clear you've not done much work with XML. Either a document is valid or it is not. If its not valid, most parsers will simply reject the file (unlike HTML, which just deals with the problems). If a document is valid, there should be no tool that doesn't properly load and parse it into the DOM, unless it is somehow broken!
The question for me is how well they implement content-presentation seperation. Will there be a 'Word 11 XSL file' with the actual content of the file seperated nicely into tags like
or will the style and content be mashed together like so: This is the question I want answered more than anything, and I can't wait to see which way they go with it. If everything is seperated nicely, we may just have an excellent source for user-produced well-formed xml documents which can be integrated into XML-based content management systems with PDF-based presentation and HTML previews, etc.MacOS does have several technologies that make it feel slower than it has to be, however. for example, it uses PDF as a layer of the composition engine. Perhaps this is overkill?
And besides, animating windows into the dock does not have to also morph and deform the window in the process. They could have simply scaled it down and saved a great deal of CPU (GPU) time, and users would still know where their shit went.
There is a difference between the computer helping when appropriate (in the background), and forcing you to notice its stupid blunders over and over (such as with the paperclip)
And I used no buzzwords. those words you think are buzz words are actually what those respective technologies are called. I actually find it very funny that you that 'neural net' is a buzzword!
Software isn't growing in complexity as fast as the chips. Perhaps this a good thing... But I really do wish comercial software would start using some of the more cpu-heavy algorithms out there. I want a neural-net email filter and IM status indicator, a GA for determining disk load order in order to improve boot time, and huristic news gathering agents the output of which can be used on my PDA, my computer, or my website. Quick-launch menus should be generated from observations of my behavior, not manual labour or click-counts. For example, I want a quick-launch bar that can understand that when I start firing up web development apps, I may want other suchlike programs. Why must the icon for Warcraft III remain prominant if I am currently working in photoshop? If I use a certain directory constantly for a certain type of document, the agent should recognise the importaince of that directory to ME and promote the accessibilty of it somehow when I am working on such a document. My directory structures should be somehow understood, so that when I want to save a new document, the computer can recommend where it thinks I want to put it. Software is starting to stick in its current roles, and so chip speed is no longer the limiting factor. If we start building better software, the chips will resume their progress.
These advertisers can then pay ISP's a 'distribution fee', which allows mail signed by that marketer's key to pass through the ISP spam filter. This ensures that spam is not free, which will drop the number of spam messages, and will also cause a corresponding increase in quality.
We are not getting rid of spam, but establishing a reasonable system for permitting its distribution seems fair.
from here:
"Finally with a nod toward law enforcement the EOS-1Ds is the first digital camera that offers the ability to verify that images are unaltered originals using the Data Verification Kit DVK-E1, consisting of a dedicated IC card and card reader, together with software for Windows 2000/XP. This package is available to verify that EOS-1Ds image files are absolutely unaltered. "